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Agree.

The way I would describe Alina's skating is that she's clearly done a lot of it, but she seems to lack an understanding of the most basic fundamental: the physical mechanics of blade meeting ice and what way to place the foot for maximum benefit from minimum effort. If you watch a skater like Patrick Chan or Hanyu or even Zhenya (both now and back when she was still with Eteri), you'll see what I mean immediately. In general, I think the girls of Sambo70 work too hard on the ice for what they get back: their stroking can be labored, they lose speed, they have inefficient body positions, etc. Yes they jump brilliantly, but...

As magnificent as that was, when I watch it all I can think is that he's so much better now and his current programs are lightyears ahead of what this was. Incredible when you think about it, really.

I think it actually might be too fast-paced for a competition piece, but just for fun we could try and guess what it would be like.

That's awesome - especially where he snacked on the scraps he was cutting away. It was so unexpected and made me laugh

For the sheer chaos of it: Pretend you're Jeff Buttle or Shae-Lynn Bourne, and Yuzu has just come to you with his music selection for the next season ( whenever that'll be). One of his choices is Cruel Angel's Thesis. He wants you to craft a competition-suitable program with the wildest StepSeq you can think of. What's your choreo and recommended layout?

I'd watch that movie!

Oh no. Whoa.

maybe Kaiya Ruiter as well, then? She's 13. Don't know if she'll be senior in time though @yuzuangel Ack, sorry!

I saw the other day where TASS.ru published a bit touting Valieva as the next great thing.

The Skate Canada tweet: He and Lubov had a great season and I was hoping to see them do great things together. So glad I saw them compete at least once.

Who are the current leading Russian 11 year olds? They're the ones who'll be in Beijing.

Instead of an autobiography, this one should be a self-help book: "How to Bounce Back from Devastating Setbacks, Win Friends, and Influence People, All While Not Knowing if It'll Be The Last Chance You Get Or Not" . Am I wrong?

Anything is a better love story than Twilight!

I don't know why this made me laugh, but it did.

I LOVE IT! WHAT A BEAUTIFUL STORY!! Oh God this pandemic is killing our sanity

I would interpret his remarks to mean he was still brainstorming ideas (at the time of the interview).

yes exactly. I don't buy the prevailing wisdom that women with curves can't jump the big jumps. Just purely on logic and science, it should be possible with the right technique.

Agree. Surely modern understanding of biomechanics has advanced enough that someone can come up with techniques for fully grown women to jump quads if that's what they want.

Latest Romsky video. I'm guessing most Canadian skaters are in the same boat as him - trying to maintain fitness as much as they can.

I have no knowledge and haven't heard anything, but my guess is even if it were closed to the public, Yuzu has enough clout there that they'd let him use it privately and exclusively. Compare that to the skaters who have no ice access at this point in time and it's not hard to draw conclusions about what the men's field will look like next season. Although Keegan is busy training for the X-Games it would seem... he just posted a skiing video to his Instagram that made me want to move to Alaska.

The thing is, coronavirus has thrown a clinker in all of that. Not only is it an open question what next season will look like, but so is how skaters will be affected by all this time off ice. Not every one of Yuzu's competitors is going to emerge from this unscathed and ready to re-enter competition the minute the season starts up. Some people will have inevitably fallen behind. I'm not at all worried about Yuzu's capability to handle this kind of a setback, but there's no telling who of his serious competitors will still be contenders when skating comes back. Taking that into consideration, on the whole i'd say it increases the chances that Yuzu is going to compete in Beijing. ( but you never know. Like, what if he falls in love with someone other than Ice-chan during this time away from her? She's a jealous mistress, after all...)

Indeed.

Um, this was their program this year: Who did it better? TBH, I find Guillaume twerks disturbingly well.

Sure, but Katarina also brought the performance value and she could jump. She was a 'total package' skater in every way.